N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” Do you ever wonder how the term “Politically Correct&# evolved from an obscure catch-phrase that was once used to label those who would not take a controversial position to the dominant mind-set of the day in our society?

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

They are not interested in hearing about the technological, regulatory, and societal developments that will determine the long-term, strategic positioning of this company.". Some large investors already have a long-term view. CEOs can seek to attract long-term investors in several ways: 1.

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Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Meta-analytic studies reviewing 50 years of research suggest that personality traits such as curiosity, extraversion, and emotional stability are twice as important as IQ — the benchmark metric for reasoning capability — when it comes to predicting leadership effectiveness. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI. Engagement.

Leadership 8

Leadership Short-term Agility Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Platform Adoption Identify and implement an appropriate technology solution to support the identification, sourcing, and management of independent labor. Testing and Learning Identify—and actively communicate and learn from—short-term wins. Benchmarks for Success Measure progress toward the goal.

Content 9

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Benchmark data isn''t sexy stuff, but occasionally the numbers reveal surprising findings. This fixation on program-based funding results in a patchwork of fragmented, short-term engagements across countries and continents. While successful in appearance, it''s a pattern of growth that starves the operational core.

Globalization 8

Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

The English grandmaster Nigel Short recently declared that computers are stripping chess of its mystery; by crunching reams of data, computers can deconstruct once-obscure board positions in a matter of seconds and reveal the optimal move. Something similar is just starting to happen in health care. Take my company, athenahealth.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Technologies will change, distribution channels for content will change, usage environments will change. This is often the reason why thoughtful quantitative analysis that incorporates macro-economic trends, market share, competitive strategies, retail analysis and technological assessments so often misses the mark. Think about it.

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Benchmarking Maslow Analysis Trends 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

The performance engine is bigger, is the center of power, and can justify resources based on short term financial results. The strategy is fuzzy, and traditional metrics can't be applied early in the process, because that which is truly new has no frame of reference nor benchmark. An inspiring, shared vision of the future.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

In short, they want to come to the rescue of victory. The technology allows automated cleaning up of large code-bases, and was licensed back to the company by Stanford. As a result, we got a good deal from Benchmark Capital. As an entrepreneur, how do you go from concept to traction? How do you bridge the seed capital gap?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Our study clearly shows that great leadership is a strong competitive advantage, with the top 20 BCL firms far outperforming the S&P 500 benchmark on shareholder returns. Similarly, Toyota (#11) encourages innovation by removing some of the pressure for short-term returns.

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Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures. While the execution of a conventional strategy lends itself to linear progress and clear benchmarks, innovation often proceeds by S-curves , moving at a slow crawl until it explodes at an exponential rate.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

In terms of finding the right career, research shows that it’s really hard to predict what you’ll be good at ahead of time, especially just by “going with your gut”, and it turns out career tests don’t work either. Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

In short, too many firms used conventional planning to manage their new ventures. Before the venture is launched, decide what success will look like in concrete terms. ” There are cases where success can’t be measured in financial terms. ” Step 2: Do benchmarking. Define success.

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Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Founded in 1928, Motorola diversified over the decades from car radios into a host of communication technologies, ranging from equipment aboard Apollo 11 to the best-selling RAZR mobile phones. As Brown explained to us, he believed in Motorola’s separation, he had recommended it to the board, and he was clearly ready to do it.

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

And second, they need to ensure that – even with respect to strategy and operations – board scrutiny doesn’t result in an over-emphasis on conforming to benchmarks and industry norms. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. Letting your ETR slip to the benchmark could risk your customers’ trust.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Ask anyone in technology. On a short-term basis, the only thing they can expect in return for focusing on data is the headaches that follow from explaining, justifying, and evaluating their operations to colleagues and investors. FedEx isn’t in the business of optimizing supply chain activities using global benchmarks.

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Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

PMI corporate culture identifies the need for employers to seek long-term achievements while proposing corporate goals and objectives. . The HR Digest: Many companies profess to be fully committed to ensuring collaboration between different subcultures, but when it comes to delivering on that promise they often fall short.

Globalization 40

Globalization Human Resources Long-term Diversity 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

It’s a situation that the EU’s European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) is hoping to improve after it was awarded a 25% increase in its budget by the European Commission, in part to address the east-west entrepreneurial divide.

Entrepreneur 52

Entrepreneur Incubator Human Capital Education 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. But products often fall short of these high expectations. billion in 2014. Fix or kill? Fix or kill?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

and has studied emerging business and technology trends. At the macro level, short-term EBIDTA optimization board room mindsets, the shareholder investor quest for outsized returns, and the reality that digital transformation is not enough have led to the conditions for digital giants to emerge. Take a long-term growth mind set.

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Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 131